A summary of D's design principles

Bruno Medeiros brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail
Thu Oct 21 05:13:54 PDT 2010


On 17/09/2010 23:39, retard wrote:
> Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:33:30 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> retard wrote:
>>> FWIW, if you're picking up one of the most used languages out there,
>>> their list won't differ that much:
>>
>> Exactly. Much of that can be summed up as D being intended for
>> professional production use, rather than:
>>
>> 1. a teaching tool (Pascal)
>> 2. a research project (Haskell)
>> 3. being focussed on solving one particular problem (Erlang) 4. designed
>> to promote a related product (Flash) 5. designed for kids (Logo)
>> 6. designed for non-programmers (Basic) 7. one paradigm to rule them all
>> (Smalltalk) 8. gee, math is hard (Java)
>> 9. implementing skynet (Lisp)
>
> A funny pic, somewhat related.. (language X, as seen by language Y users)
>
> http://i.imgur.com/1gF1j.jpg

retard, this is your best post ever! xP

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer


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